home plate
noun
: a 5-sided rubber slab at one corner of a baseball diamond at which a batter stands when batting and which must be touched by a base runner in order to score
Examples of home plate in a Sentence
The runner was tagged out at home plate.
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After Walter had some words with the home plate umpire, cameras panned to the Wake Forest dugout where Walter appeared to yell a homophobic slur with Fischer at the plate.
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Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 4 June 2025
Part of the campaign includes a limited edition Squish the Bug home plate turf mat designed to teach Little Leaguers the fundamentals of batting.
—John Perrotto, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
As an animated Correa moved closer to home plate, Baldelli sprung out of the dugout, wedging himself between the player and umpire.
—Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 1 June 2025
Among regular center fielders, only the Philadelphia Phillies’ Johan Rojas sets up closer to home plate.
—Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 29 May 2025
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Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 4 June 2025
Part of the campaign includes a limited edition Squish the Bug home plate turf mat designed to teach Little Leaguers the fundamentals of batting.
—John Perrotto, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
As an animated Correa moved closer to home plate, Baldelli sprung out of the dugout, wedging himself between the player and umpire.
—Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 1 June 2025
Among regular center fielders, only the Philadelphia Phillies’ Johan Rojas sets up closer to home plate.
—Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 29 May 2025
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“Home plate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/home%20plate. Accessed 7 Jun. 2025.
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